Due to an unfortunate incident with the Last Pass extension on Chrome. I went to change a password with read only permissions and instead ended up locking myself out of the administrator account in vCenter. (yes, I know I shouldn’t have been using it in the first place). Anyway… Having recently upgraded the environment to … Read more
I struggled a bit with this one, as i wasn’t used to Pagination. It took me a while of googling and reading up to piece this together and get the results i was looking for. The issue with looking at all different code out there as a reference, is that MS makes enough changes making … Read more
I find myself needing to refresh our older switches (of which there are several) We are, of course, a Cisco shop and have several Data Rooms, with about twenty plus switches in each. Weather your running this against 3750’s or 9300’s this little python function will help you quickly asses which ports are configured to … Read more
Recently i had a project which had me automate a bunch of excel files and serve them up to Microsoft’s Power BI through an on-premise Gateway. The source Excel files were a pretty big mess, and needed quite a bit of data massaging before being ready. I had thought it was all good-to-go using openpyxl, … Read more
Recently i was involved with a project that had me automate, recieving emails from a system, formatting them into excel files and redacting all names, from several columns in the file. I just want to preface that I am NOT a programmer by trade, however was able to solve the problem with the following script … Read more
Now that the effects of the Broadcom purchase of VMware have become clear from a financial standpoint businesses will have to make a choice on weather or not to retain it as hypervisor. If, like my own company, the risks of migrating outweigh the financial gains, then you will want to go ahead and make … Read more
WPA3-Enterprise provides enhanced security for enterprise wireless networks by offering stronger encryption and authentication mechanisms. Integrating it with Microsoft Network Policy Server (NPS) for RADIUS authentication ensures secure user access. This guide walks through the step-by-step configuration of WPA3-Enterprise with NPS. Prerequisites Before configuring WPA3-Enterprise with NPS, ensure the following: Step 1: Install and Configure … Read more
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) can be quite frustrating while not working in top form. I suspect, running it on Server 2025 only amplify’s this frustration. According to Microsoft, these are the common Causes: Recommended Troubleshooting Steps: Sometimes, simply restarting WSUS-related services can resolve temporary issues. Reset the WSUS Database Check IIS Configuration Run the … Read more
I am a Mac guy 100%. However In my 9-5 position I am in charge of maintaining an infrastructure filled with VM’s most of which are running some version of Windows or Linux. Ironically we do not actually have much of a Mac deployment at all, I believe there are maybe 10 in the whole … Read more